San Francisco vindicator., 1887-08-13
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUG. 13 1887
THE JURY FIxERS.

{ The grand jury has done well in indiet
ing Morrow and McCord for the part the.
took in attempting to bribe certain Jurors
Now let the District Attorney do his duty
and the petit jury theirs, and it will be
a lesson that will be needed hereafter. il
| will tend to purify the atmosphere Of this
city and perhaps deter others from the
commission of kindred offenses. But we
| have no confidence that these men will be
convicted whatever the prof may be. These
men have too much money, and our whole
Judicial system is reeking with corruption.
That the old Supreme Court was corrupt,
no one now has the hardihood to deny.
The judges brokers are pointed out on the
streets, and some that are known TO be cor
rupt are now on the bench to the disgrace
Of the State and its decent inhabitants.
Does any one suppose for moment that
the rnapHtuiatofsof politics IN SAP Frarcis-
co wouli ever haye ictd such men as
Murphy and Toony on The b hch unless il
was 10 use them? That they have been
used most disreputably is plain to any ous
with the least acamen.
The people have the matter in thier own
hands, and can remedy the evils when they
choose to act. But will they act? The
time will come when they will rise in their
might and overwhelm the rascals both on
and off the bench.
The truth is, this whole community was
thoroughly demoraized by the Sharon case
and its off shoots. Sharon and his tools,
Barnes, KowaIski and others bribed judges,
grand juries, sheriffs and all the influential
newspapers in San Francisco.
He boasted that he would spend mill
ion dollars before he would pay alimony or
counsel fees in his contest with his wife, |
He procured Martha Wilson to commit per-
jury, under promise of protection, and he |
protected her.
der promise of protection and protected |
him. He induced Nellie Blackett to per-
jure herself and she has not been prosecu- |
ted or arrested. He believed she would be |
prosecuted and convicted, so, went to Gov
ernor Stoneman and tried to get him prom
ise in advance to pardon her in case of her
but did not succeed in securing
such cooperation.
He and his tools with packed jury and
he use of large amount of coin with the
District Attorney. J. N. E. Wilson and
,taers secured our conviction of felony,
or doing our simple duty as Notary Pub
ic, and when that was done, Barnes, and
he District Attorney offered Mrs. Weile
md ourself new trial and subsequent ac-
Iuittal if we would perjure ourselves and
,y SO doing secure the conviction of Judge
Tyler npon charge of felony, when they
we'll knew he was entirely Innocent.
And as subsequently testified by re-
spectacle and unimpeachahle witness, Judge
D. j. Murphy was cognizant of these mat
ers ard was plant tool in their hands
or the accomplishment of their nefarious
The only reason they failed to
succeed was the refusal on our part and
hat of Mrs. Weile to perjure ourselves.
With these late occurrences in the revo-
ution of the Jury Bribers, and with the
evolution that the public press did not
wen enter a decent protest against such
lnblushing rascality, it is no wonder they
l. d an idea that bribing jury was a very
offenso in San Francisco. We
nope the time is not far distant when the
u oral sense of the community will be
aroused, and criminals punished, however
ich, and whatever their positions in sos
,iety may be.